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[truesight]

( CHARACTER INFORMATION )
- ★ NAME: Rachel Elizabeth Dare
- ★ AGE: 17
- ★ CANON & CANON POINT: House of Hades. The fourth, and latest book of the Heroes of Olympus series. I'll be taking her from the end of the book.
- ★ CANON INFORMATION: House of Hades & Rachel Elizabeth Dare for more background info on her specifically from the previous eight books.
- ★ PERSONALITY:
“I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
Rachel will tell you her best qualities, her most important qualities, are the ones that you can discern from almost any one of her art projects. She's outgoing and social and bright, just the same as her paintings are usually colorful and abstract and chaotic. She's very much a fan of performance art as well, all for using the human form as a canvas, even going so far as to paint herself entirely gold and posing as a statue in the middle of Times Square ( with four other kids, but still ) in order to raise money to fund her school's art program. Art is her life ( ..well, was, before the whole Oracle thing ), she's an artist down to the very core, and she lives in such a way that makes that very obvious. She's open about her feelings, in talking about them and showing them. And she's not a drama queen but she did cry when she thought she accidentally killed one of the new demi-gods with a powerful vision, and when she was faced with feeling responsible for Pan's death. Kid wears her heart on her sleeve, and she isn't ashamed of it. She's honest and blunt, though in a very matter-of-fact way, moreso than mean or cutting. She's actually pretty damn optimistic when it comes to most things, and she wouldn't go so far as to say she always looks on the "bright side" of a situation ( since even the better/right option isn't always the prettiest ) but she certainly wouldn't ever bring people down with a negative attitude. She just doesn't have it in her to be like that.

Even when Percy asks her to help lead him and Annabeth through Daedalus' Labyrinth, a favor that's potentially life-threatening, she sees it as an opportunity to do something a little more interesting than she already had planned for the summer. Not fun, but at least it's a better offer than the boring plans she had. Optimism!

When Rachel and Annabeth first meet ( and through much of the 4th and 5th books ), Annabeth is really a tiiiiny bit hostile towards her, and even though she totally recognizes and acknowledges it right from the start, she isn't swayed by it. They had their snarky moments, but Rachel never actually gets mad at Annabeth for her behavior, if anything she seems to just accept it because she knows what it is, even if Percy's completely blind to it. She has this same general attitude about most things, never one to outwardly panic or get angry, even if a situation is completely insane or new to her. When Percy finally tells her about demigods and monsters, she's actually relieved, and accepts it without much question. If anything, she kind of insisted he explain everything to her after the attack on their school, saying he owed it to her, and once he did she never one threw it back at him or tried to convince herself he was lying to her. She just accepted it as truth. Which was probably made easier by the fact that she has true sight and could see weird things her whole life, but even as they're faced with ( really scary!! ) obstacles in the Labyrinth, she usually accepts all of their explanations with a sort of "oh, okay." attitude. Hey, she's a part of this world now, who is she to question or panic at the reality of it?

As easygoing as Rachel can be, there's also a side to her that is really, really driven to get what she wants. It's not a selfish thing, but a determination that can't really be swayed when she focuses on it. It's the same thing that made her promise to go to finishing school if her parents ended their family vacation early so she could get back to NYC and help her friends ( she was having vague, scary visions about the battle going on in the city and was drawing Percy's name in greek in the sand, which made her realize she had to be there ), and the same thing that helped her lead on through the Labyrinth even though the glowing path she saw sometimes lead them through dangerous traps. She gets her gut feelings and she sticks to them. She's like this about her emotions as well, in a way. There's a bit of a competition between the Annabeth and Rachel for Percy's attention, but it's never stated explicitly, not until after Rachel becomes the Oracle and it's established that she can't date anyone anymore because of it. Only then does she eventually kinda go 'oh hey, Percy, sorry this thing couldn't work out, fate's a jerk like that, but now you need to go talk to Annabeth'. More or less. In fewer words, but yeah. She's very plain and simple about things, even when it comes to her emotions.

Even though Rachel isn't a demigod, that she's just a girl that likes to paint and read and take part in Save the Wildlife rallies, she still has it in her to be really brave ( or maybe just really impulsive ) when it comes to her friends and her feelings. On the one hand, she was very forward when she was hanging out alone with Percy one time, asking him, for a minute, to pretend that they were a pair of normal people hanging out, and then went on to ask if both people liked each other, how, exactly, would the girl would get the stupid guy to kiss her. ..Yeah, that kind of bravery. But on the other hand! She's brave in that when she believes, oh, her friends are in danger of being killed by the Lord of the Titans, she isn't afraid to run right into the moment and smack said Titan lord in the face with her hairbrush. So yeah, kinda brave, kinda stupid.

And that's not even taking into account how risky it was to try and take on the Spirit of Delphi at all. Before her, the last woman to successfully take on the spirit was cursed to keep the spirit within her, even long after she died, until the children of Hades were seen as equals to the rest of the demigods. ( Guess who put that curse on the Oracle? yep, Hades himself ). This is the same Oracle we encounter a few times in the books, who's nearly a century old. The woman that tried to become the new Oracle before Rachel actually went insane for attempting it before the curse was broken, and there wasn't any solid proof that Rachel would be safe if she tried it when she did, but she was confident, she was sure it was her fate. She flew ( yes flew, on Percy's pegasus ) straight into Camp Half-Blood and didn't let anyone stop her from what she thought was her destiny. Pretty gutsy stuff for a mortal.

Her flaws? The conflict she has with her family is certainly the center of those, in a way. Any sort of self doubt she has is brought on by her difference of opinion with her father, who tears down forests for a living just to build stupid malls ( as far as she sees it ), and on more than one occasion she's made it clear that she disapproves of her family's lifestyle, only contacting her parents ( well, her driver.. ) when she and her friends need help getting somewhere fast. She actually insists that the driver doesn't inform her parents where she is, and she told Percy she was sure they wouldn't even notice if she was gone all that time searching through the Labyrinth. It's not that they mistreat her or anything, she just doesn't fit in with them at all. She isn't left outwardly showing that she's lonely, but she doesn't talk about them very much either, which is definitely going to mess with a girl her age. It probably is the reason why she's pretty impulsive with her decisions, no matter how dangerous, because some part of her really doesn't believe her parents care what happens to her, good or bad. Her parents want her to be something she's not, and while she stuck with her promise to go to finishing school, she's definitely more focused on her new life at the camp than she ever was back home. I don't think she resents her family for the fact that they're rich, but she doesn't buy into it, or take advantage of it. If anything I think she wears her old jeans and torn tees as a way of proving just that - she isn't her father, and she doesn't want to be. Either way, I think, like most people her age, she just really wants to fit in, find her place, and feel like she's making a difference in the world. She has this need to be useful, to keep busy, and I think that's why she was so determined to become the next Oracle, and fulfill what she was sure was her 'destiny', what she was meant to do with her gifts.

- ★ COURT ALLIANCE:
Seelie!
I actually had a pretty tricky time trying to decide which of the two to put her in, but I think the fact that she took the oath to become the oracle kind of wipes out the idea of "passion before duty" that's shared within the Unseelie court. She might think outside of the box, lean towards more of the chaotic side of things, but her loyalty to her friends and her "destiny" is too strong for me to confidently put her there. Also yeah, "my word speaks only truth" is literally part of her job as the oracle, and I think at this point it's spread into her normal life too. She's always going to be blunt and honest before anything else, and she's not the type to try and spin that to her advantage in any way. She's never really the type to be brutally honest about stuff, she just doesn't like guessing games when it comes to certain things. But! On the Unseelie side, I do think she's very on board with the idea of doing what she wants to because it's her life, her decisions. She doesn't do what's "expected" of her, looking at it from what her family wants her to be like, so she's got a little of both in her, I think.

That said, I would be up for playing her on either side, if you guys could see her being in either one, too.

- ★ ABILITIES:
I accept this role. I pledge myself to Apollo, God of Oracles. I open my eyes to the future and embrace the past. I accept the spirit of Delphi, Voice of the Gods, Speaker of Riddles, Seer of Fate.
YEP. As stated, Rachel is an oracle. The Oracle, back in her world, though in her world, all of her visions and prophecies have to do with half-bloods and the quests that their godly parents send them on for whatever reason. Ideally I'd love for her to have dreams about the game once she's settled in, her powers would probably adapt to the new circumstances. Especially because there are already a few demigods from her world in the game. That said! It would all be discussed player-to-player, she won't be dreaming about characters without their player's permission.

In canon:
- She can answer questions people might have about their future, but she can't control what she sees or what she feels, she's really just a middleman for whatever "fate" wants to project through her. She gets feelings ( can get "vibes" from people ), and has dreams, but she doesn't always know what they mean or who they're meant for. It's a vague game!

- The most 'powerful' thing she can do, besides make her eyes glow green and give herself a very intimidating green aura of sorts, is that she can see a person's fate. It's been said that when demigods went up to speak with the Oracle before she took on the spirit, they sometimes went crazy from what she told them. Yeah. That kind of fate stuff. 2spooky.

- She also has "true sight", but that just means she can see through the magical barriers ( the "Mist" ) that hides the mythological world from the mortal world, on Earth. Mmmmaybe that could come into play in the game? But I'm not sure.

Otherwise she's really, painfully normal. No fighting skills, so cool demigod abilities. Just weird visions that often include seeing the horrifying futures of her friends. Fun stuff.

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inventory;;

[truesight]

- ★ INVENTORY:
- ( 1 ) pair of torn up/worn in/scribbled on jeans
- ( 1 ) tank top
- ( 1 ) loose-fitted tee
-- ..basically this outfit.
- ( 1 ) blue plastic hairbrush she keeps in her back pocket. not actually a weapon, but she's not afraid to use it.

- samhain dress.
& mask

- ★ BOONS:
- art supplies.
- golden bow + arrow.

-- Blackjack, Percy's pegasus.